You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWINThe victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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